Chief Rabbi Metzger joined other public figures to dedicate a state-of-the-art soup kitchen near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market to survivors of the Shoah.
For several years, Chabad Lubavitch has been running a free or"pay as you can’ soup kitchen for the elderly, many of them Shoah survivors. At least 80 people eat at the soup kitchen daily. For many who come, it may be the only meal of the day.
The horrors of the Shoah are deeply entwined in the consciousness of Brazil’s Fox family.
Opposition Head Tzipi Livni cast harsh words about not finding peace. She said Israel will turn into an Arab state if solutions are not found. Livni predicted that at some point, there would be a country between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in which every person had the right to vote. The eventual Arab majority would obviously mean Israel would be an Arab state.
They were caught on tape. The Knesset releasing footage of Knesset Members stealing... First, Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver can be seen stealing a plant from another Knesset Member’s office. But the big shock came when footage showed Likud MK Yekhiel Hazan stealing a voting machine from the Knesset storeroom. The Knesset only released the video after the Supreme Court ordered it to do so.
Fallen Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s corruption trial may be postponed by up to three months. Jerusalem District Prosecutor Eli Abarbanel called for the delay after the Deputy District Prosecutor Uri Korev was put on ‘forced vacation’ after calling the judges ‘donkeys.’ Abarbanel said Korev knows the smallest details of the case, and that it would be foolish to continue without him. Olmert’s lawyers said they saw no reason why the trial should be delayed.
Beit Yehonatan stands another day but for how long? The Jerusalem Municipality and the Police were supposed to coordinate the eviction process at the seven-story Jewish home in the East Jerusalem enclave of Silwan, but that never happened. The house is a flashpoint of the delicate political situation in the capitol. The Jewish group 'Ateret Cohanim' built the home in 2004 without a permit. Representatives for the organization say if the city evacuates Beit Yehonatan, it must also get rid of illegal homes built by Arabs.
The 11-year-old boy whose leg was severed after stepping on a land mine in the Golan Heights says there was no fence or sign warning of the mine field. Daniel Yuval said he was playing with his sister in the snow when the explosion occurred.
Top military brass acknowledged more could be done to protect the public from such incidents. Golan Brigade Commander Colonel Eshkol Shakrun said the public must be vigilant when stopping in the Golan, and said weather has caused some warning signs to deteriorate.
The youth who was arrested on suspicion of setting ablaze holy books in a mosque in the village of Yasuf, near Nablus, has been released on bail, after verifying his alibi.Nevertheless his involvement in the case is still being investigated. 03/01/10
Bernard Henri Levy meet Noam Shalit, the Gilat Shalit's father in the north 5'10
The driver manning the wheel of the
bus which crashed off Highway 12, north of the southern resort city of Eilat, has 22 prior traffic offenses. Twenty-five people were killed and 33 injured, as the bus drove off the road, plummeting 70 meters down into a ravine. Transport Minister Mofaz said the accident was caused beause of road rage.12/17/08
Twenty five Russian tourists were killed and scores injured after a tourist bus travelling on Road 12, the Ovda road north of Eilat crashed, plunging 70 meters from the road into a ravine. The tourists all tour operators from St. Petersburg had just arrived on a direct charter flight that landed at the nearby Ovda Airport for a week's visit to Israel and were being transfrred to Eilat when the accident occurred.12/16/08
We have to win the war against Islam otherwise we will lose our cultural identity said Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders after screening his film Fitna at a conference called Facing Jihad in Jerusalem. The 17 minute film claims that the Koran encourages acts of terrorism, and antisemitism, and also deals with the influence of
Islam on the Netherlands. Due to death threats Wilders is constantly accompanied by bodyguards.12/15/08
British singer Estelle’s hugely popular song American Boy has rocketed to the top of the charts throughout Europe and North America, yet few know that the song is also immensely popular in the Middle East.
Just last month, Israel released two new versions of the song. One version sung in Hebrew recounts a Middle Eastern love story, while the second version in Arabic satirizes the stereotype of Arab women in Middle Eastern society. 12/11/08
At the renowned Israel Museum in Jerusalem, museum goers may be surprised to find a new exhibition displaying something rarely seen on the shelves of the one of the most prestigious museums in the world – Toys. Yet these toys are no child’s play, they are historical and cultural antiques featured in an exhibition entitled “Toy Story: Israel’s Children in the Early Years” which displays an impressive collection of games, toys, books and stories from the founding years of the State of Israel. 12/09/08
Al-Qasemi College is an educational institute focusing on the study of Islamic law and religion located in the Israeli-Arab town of Bekka Al-Gharbiya. Today, the college is recognized by Israel’s Higher Council of Education as an official institute of higher learning and it has now broadened its scope to incorporate studies of all kinds. Infolive.tv visited the college and see how the Al-Qasemi's Islamic heritage has influenced its students. 12/04/08
Five years ago Roland Mori and his wife came face to face with a
terrorist in their home in Moshav Maor. Roland tells Olivier Rafowicz, CEO Infolive.tv of the sequence of events that changed his life.12/03/08
